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to escape joining it, hurried out of church, and took a stand to see it 

 at some distance. As I saw the mean little train appear, — for mean 

 it was, though composed of all the municipal and military dignitaries 

 that could be collected, — I could not help thinking of the splendid 

 show which three years ago I saw on the day of the Corpus Domini 

 in Rome, and thinking how, in both cases, the " form of godliness 

 denied the power thereof," and as I knelt to the symbols of religion, 

 how widely different was that faith which worships God in spirit and 

 in truth. 



There was a pretty part of the show, however, on the water : about 

 150 little boats and canoes, dressed with the national colours, and 

 firing rockets every now and then, rowed round the bay, and stopped 

 at every church, and before every fishing cove, to sing a hymn, or 

 chaunt. After accompanying them for some time, I went into 

 Mr. Hoseason's house, and there I found Lord Cochrane. I should 

 say he looks better than when I last saw him in England, although 

 his life of exertion and anxiety has not been such as is in general 

 favourable to the looks. — How my heart yearned to think that 

 when our own country lost his service, England, 



" Like a base Ethiope, threw a pearl away 

 Richer than all his kind." 



But he is doing honour to his native land, by supporting that cause 

 which used to be hers ; and in after-ages his name will be among 

 those of the household gods of the Chilenos. 



On Lord Cochrane's arrival here from Lima, every body was of 

 course anxious to hear what he, and the officers of the squadron in 

 general, think and feel concerning the protectorate of Peru. His 

 Lordship, however, does not say any thing concerning the conduct 

 of San Martin ; but the officers are not so discreet : they universally 

 represent the present government of Peru as most despotic and 

 tyrannical, now and then stained by cruelties more like the frenetic 

 acts of the Czar Paul than the inflictions of even the greatest military 

 tyrants. I have a letter from an officer of the Doris, saying that an 

 elderly respectable woman in Lima, having imprudently spoken too 



